Info-Profits Talk - Script Feedback

Louis

If you have features you would like added or changed in Custom PDF Maker please list them in this thread.

You can consider the current version of this script as version 1.0. I'd like to make it a work in progress responding to feedback, making it more powerful and easy to use as it matures.

So please let me know how you might like to see the script changed/improved.

I'd appreciate your views on the following too:

A couple of extra tools for this script that I feel would immediately be helpful are a user friendly HTML to XML (for this script) conversion tool. This will make it easier to create HTML in Dreamweaver or FrontPage and then convert it into the right XML format for this script.

And also a web based editor (like the one here when you type in forum messages) with ready made buttons for Bold, Italic ... etc. I feel that would make it easier to put the code together.

Kennon

Louis,

I just took a few pages of a Word Document, part of one of my
teleseminar transcripts, and plugged it into Dreamweaver simply
using a copy and paste method. That way, I wouldn't get a lot of
extra stuff by any other means of putting the information into an
HTML file.

Upon opening Dreamweaver, I started with a new web page, took
out the default meta tag and the top comment tag.

Now inside Dreamweaver, I went through and converted all
those codes that were using & as a prefix for encoding quote
marks and similar items of punctuation. (I should have first put
the file into notepad and then copied from there to Dreamweaver
I suppose.)

Next, I went through the file and manually took out spaces so
that there would be proper spacing inside my PDF.

So, having been through this process, is there a way (or can we
devise one) that will be simpler and easier?

Look forward to your response.

Thanks,
Kennon :)

Louis

Hi Kennon

Because of tags Dreamweaver adds that may not be supported by the script, it may perhaps work better to simply paste the text into a text file and add the tags as you need around it.

As you do so you can view your file in IE to see how it's looking, or use something like:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/homesite/

or

http://www.coffeecup.com/software/

...to edit code and preview at the same time.

And some peculiarities of this script:

At the moment the actual special codes don't work very well. The script seems to have a real issue with the "&" character.

So for quotes (for example), in your source it's recommended you just use " since that came out fine for me. And you might want to pay attention to double spaces too.

Sincerely,
Louis